Platform Engineer

AI Holding Company for Engineering Firms • New York City (On-site)

Location

New York City (On-site, 5 days/week)

Compensation

$200k–$300k base + 0.10–0.75% profit interests

About the company

Our client is a venture-backed AI holding company that acquires established US engineering firms and modernises them with applied AI. Founded in 2025 and around 12 people today, they don't sell software into the industry — they buy the firms outright and rebuild how the work actually gets done, which means everything the engineering team ships lands in the hands of real users immediately.

The role

This is a founding seat: you'll be the CTO's direct partner and the person who establishes the platform practice from the ground up. You'll build the core infrastructure that every product surface is deployed on, for an AI-driven solution in the civil and structural engineering space — a market with almost no serious technical competition. There is no existing platform team and no playbook handed to you: you'll set the architecture, the standards and the culture of how infrastructure is done here.

What you'll do

Establish the platform practice from scratch — architecture, tooling, standards and deployment story
Build and own the core infrastructure the whole product is deployed on
Partner directly with the CTO on the technical decisions that set the company's trajectory
Own cloud infrastructure and CI/CD end-to-end, from provisioning through to production reliability
Set the engineering culture for infrastructure as the team grows past its first handful of engineers

What we're looking for

These are hard requirements. Check each one that applies to you.

6+ years building and owning production infrastructure or platform engineering
I've operated as a founding or first infrastructure engineer — comfortable establishing a platform practice with no existing team and no playbook
Deep hands-on ownership of cloud infrastructure and CI/CD on AWS
Production experience across a modern full-stack environment — Python, Kotlin and Next.js
I can partner directly with a technical founder and own architecture decisions end-to-end
Able to work on-site in SoHo, New York City

Please note: every item above is a hard requirement for this role. Applications that don't meet all of them will be rejected. We recommend applying only if you check every box.

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Nice to have

Built a platform or infrastructure function from zero at an early-stage company
Experience supporting AI or LLM workloads in production
Comfort working close to the business — this seat shapes strategy, not just systems

Tech stack

Next.js, Tailwind, Kotlin, Python and AWS, with CI/CD across the stack.

Compensation & logistics

$200k–$300k base + 0.10–0.75% profit interests with dilution protection through Series A
On-site in SoHo, New York City — this is a deliberately in-person environment
Open to candidates already authorised to work, visa transfers (OPT, H1B) and new visa sponsorship (H1B, TN)
1 hire planned

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